...Warren Montag Is Spinoza a theoretician of self-interest? Historians of philosophy have arrived at diametrically opposed answers to this question. His introduction of the term conatus , meaning endeavor or striving, in part 3 of the Ethics , together with his assertion that when human beings most...

... on Spinoza, there can be no doubt that having a “moral” vision of the world is one of the most unflattering things he could say about someone’s work. Thus, even in a basically sym- pathetic review, and although Simondon clearly...

... Corpet and Yann Moulier Boutang. Trans. Richard Veasey. New York:New P, 1993 . Balibar, Étienne. “Spinoza: From Individuality to Transindividuality.” Mededelingen vanwege het Spinozahuis 71 . Eburon Delft, 1997 . Deleuze, Gilles. “Désir et plaisir.” Magazine Littéraire 325 (Oct. 1994...

... , 2001 . Bondanella Peter . Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present . New York : Continuum , 1993 . Caminati Luca . Roberto Rossellini Documentarista: Una cultura della realtà . Rome : Carocci , 2012 . Casarino Cesare . “ The Expression of Time (Spinoza, Deleuze...

... Sydney, Australia. She is the author of $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan ( suny Press, 2007) and Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology ( suny Press, forthcoming 2013) and is coeditor, with Dimitris Vardoulakis, of Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011). She has...

.... Warren Montag argues that Spinoza rejects the idea of the individual not only as the subject of rights but also as what Foucault called the subject of interest, the individual who predictably acts according to the requirements...

... Spinoza and Politics (Verso, 2008), The Philosophy of Marx (Verso, 2007), and Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002). Translated by Stephanie Bundy stephanie bundy is a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Trans...

.... Carino, Marites. “Amazing Brace.” Montreal Mirror 21.30 (Jan. 2005 ). http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/011906/cover_wap.html . Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image . Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 1989 . ———. “Ethology: Spinoza and Us...

... York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2003 . Morfino Vittorio . Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser . Leiden : Brill , 2014 . Safouan Moustafa . La Psychanalyse: Science, thérapie—et cause . Paris : Éditions Thierry Marchaisse , 2013...

... In Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, Damasio maps a model of the feeling brain in which he locates affective process within homeostasis, the mechanism of self-regulation that drives toward well-being as the natural...

... Étienne . Spinoza and Politics . Trans. Snowdon Peter . London : Verso , 1998 . Balibar Étienne . “ Tais-toi encore, Althusser! ” Les Temps modernes 44 . 509 ( 1988 ): 1 – 29 . Balibar Étienne . “ Violence, Ideality, and Cruelty .” Politics and the Other Scene . London...

... gain prominence; however, whether it is Brecht, Spinoza, or Machiavelli, with Freud and Lacan, it is always Marx whose thought is at stake. But these reformulations of the problematic of ideology suggest a transformation more profound than the difference among registers would seem to imply...

... day on the news, what are we to do? Here, I find that Brennan offers a twenty-first-century twist on Spinoza, who recognized that one comes to dismantle the fixity of such fear and begins to reroute these energies by recognizing the limits of the personal, that is, recognizing that our human...

... of His Time.” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 24 ( 1973 ): 147 –243. Spinoza, Benedict de. The Ethics. A Spinoza Reader . Ed. and trans. Edwin Curley. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994 . Stafford, Barbara. Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine . Cambridge, Mass...

..., and a world without others receives a curious new epithet in Deleuze’s penultimate formulation. We know that anything linked to Spinoza cannot be bad for Deleuze. Indeed, we might say that anything linked to Spinoza has to be positive, and this is what Tournier’s elementally sexual and sadistic Robinson comes...

... staged and performed. Ideas are things, as Spinoza put it, but not things constituted and defined prior to their performance; on the contrary, they only exist in actu ( Ethics 2:11). Althusser’s analysis suggests that author and spectator are constituted as symmetrical figures, the one, the origin...

..., although whether this attri- bution is correct has long been a source of contention in the literature. Yet, without disavowing its appearance there, on different occasions, Althusser also designates Machiavelli, Spinoza, and Epicurus...

... of Bildung . Ithaca : Cornell up , 1988 . Sophocles . Antigone. Fabulae . Ed. Lloyd-Jones H. Wilson N. G. Oxford : Clarendon , 1990 . 181 – 238 . Spinoza Baruch . Ethik in geometrischer Ordnung dargestellt. Lateinisch–Deutsch . Ed. Bartuschat Wolfgang . Hamburg...

... as a direct continuation of Baruch Spinoza’s account of the democratic availability of the natural world. Moreover, Barbauld treats her conviction that the book of nature is equally open to all as imposing an obvious limit to the adult’s ability to praise and blame. Whereas many other writers for children...

... philosophy and the long tradition beginning with Plato. I studied both literature and philosophy in Paris, from Spinoza and Kant to Jean Wahl’s lectures on Heidegger and Nietzsche. It was 1963. I discovered Proust the same year...